I am a third year law student and am interested in a similar career. I would
also appreciate any advice anyone has to offer. Thanks.

D. Bright

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>I am a practicing lawyer in Washington DC.  I have always loved Museums and
>museum stuff and even attended Parsons School of Design for a couple of
>years before going to law school with an eye toward becoming a curator.  I
>got waylaid one summer while studying in Italy by the terrible corrosion
>facing our architectural treasures and decided to go to law school to
>become an historic preservation and/or environmental lawyer.  Alas, I am
>currently doing neither.  In fact I am a commercial lawyer.  My focus over
>the years has been in employment law, contract law - both drafting and
>negotiating as well as litigating, and insurance law.  I've worked with
>artists through the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts, and I am
>currently participating in a docent program at a museum here in DC.  But
>I'd really like to get back to my true love and find a way to combine my
>profession with my avocation and go to work for a museum as a lawyer.  I am
>prepared to spend a year or two regrouping and networking.  I am also
>considering going back to school for some additional formal education to
>round out my experience.  My question is what kind of program would be more
>useful:  a Museum Studies Program or a Not-for-Profit Administration
>program?   I can see how my contracts and insurance background would be
>useful, but what other areas would a museum want its general counsel to be
>well versed in?  What does a Registrar of a museum do exactly?  Finally,
>does anyone know who does the legal work for the Corcoran Museum and/or
>Corcoran School of Art?  Thanks.
>
>--  Annemarie Brennan Rice
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